HB2169

THE CONTEXT: Governing board meetings must be held at the most convenient public facility in the school district or, if such a facility is not available, at any available public facility that is convenient to all governing board members, regardless of the county or school district ( A. R.

WHAT THE BILL DID: by majority vote of the governing board. A governing board may also allow its members or members-elect to travel inside or outside the school district for a school purpose and to receive reimbursement.

WHY IT MATTERED: The practical reason for this bill was to turn the Legislature's standard for school districts into an enforceable rule. It would mandate all meetings of a governing board and the governing board's subcommittees be held at a public facility in the school district, subject to open meeting law requirements, and would also require a governing board to provide the public with online access to all governing board and subcommittee meeting materials in the same manner as the governing board provides online access to meeting notices, rather than leave the current rule unchanged.